Sanctuary City [electronic resource] : A Suspended State /
Bagelman, J.author.
Sanctuary City: A Suspended State traces the ancient concept of sanctuary up to the present day revealing how the contemporary and supposedly hospitable 'sanctuary city' inadvertently entrenches a hostile asylum regime. This book specifically explores the UK-based sanctuary movement with a focus on Glasgow, host to the largest population of asylum seekers in the UK. Based on ethnographic research this book examines how sanctuary renders intractable the serious problem of protracted waiting, indefinitely deferring the rights of asylum seekers. Whilst illuminating how sanctuary functions as a technology that suspends many lives, this book also explores how the sanctuary city might politically challenge this waiting state.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Mapping Sanctuary's Sacred Promise; 3 A Politics of Ease; 4 Drawing Out Time; 5 The Idealized City; 6 Still Waiting: Security, Temporality, Population; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sanctuary City: A Suspended State traces the ancient concept of sanctuary up to the present day revealing how the contemporary and supposedly hospitable 'sanctuary city' inadvertently entrenches a hostile asylum regime. This book specifically explores the UK-based sanctuary movement with a focus on Glasgow, host to the largest population of asylum seekers in the UK. Based on ethnographic research this book examines how sanctuary renders intractable the serious problem of protracted waiting, indefinitely deferring the rights of asylum seekers. Whilst illuminating how sanctuary functions as a technology that suspends many lives, this book also explores how the sanctuary city might politically challenge this waiting state.
Emigration and immigration.
Public policy.
Human geography.
Political sociology.
Political science.
Public law .
Migration.
Public Policy.
Human Geography.
Political Sociology.
Political Science.
Public Law.